Improvement in auger-handles



duitrti ittica @anni @time Letters Patent N o. 108,267, dated October 11, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN AUGER'HANDLES.

The Schedule referred to in these Iietters Patent and making part of the same.

.o all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, WILLIAM A. Ives, of New Haven, in the county ot' New Haven and State of Gonnectcut, haye nventedanew improvement in Auger- Ha-ndles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification, and represents in- Figure l atop View;

Figure 2, a longitudinal central section;

Figure 3, the cam detached; and in Figure 4., a modiiication of the jaw.

This invention relates to au improvement in auger-handles, such as are constructed to receive and hold different angers; and

It consists- First, in a cylindrical cam, arranged upon the socket, so as to adjust the position of the auger, combined with a screw upon the opposite side to secure the auger into position.

Second, in combination with the above, a self-adjusting jaw to aid in securing the auger.

A is a socket,'into one. end oi' which a handle, D, is xed, the other end threaded, so as to receive the correspondingly-threaded Iend l) of the other handle C; through the socket an opening is made for the in sertion of the shank E of the auger, as seen in fig. 2,

`Around the socket, upon the end of the fixed handle, a cylindrical cam, 11, is arranged, as seen in figs. I and 2, the said cam turning freely around the socket. By this cam the position of the auger is governed, as by turning the cam the inclined edge will, at some point, bear upon both the upper and lower sides, as

seen in Iig. 2, to accommodate the taper of the shank. Then the shank of the auger is thus adjusted, the head I) is turned np, so as to bear against and hohl the anger within the grasp of the handle. This is best done by arranging a jaw, a, as seen in figs. l and 2, attached to the end I), so as to swing vertically, and to accommodate itself to the inclination ort-apex' of the shank, as denoted in brokenv lines, iig. 2.

In some casesit may be desirable that the jaw be constructed so as to grasp the anger below the tapered shank, as seen in iig. 4. In such case, the lower end of the jaw extends, as at d, tig. 4, so as to grasp below the head or taper of the auger; and a co1- responding jaw may be arranged upon the opposite side, against which the cam would bear in like man lner, as described, for bearing against the shank ofthe anger.

I do not wish to be understood as broadly claiming an anger-handle constructed so as to be adjusted to receive and hold different angers; but

I do claim- 1.' In combination with the socket A, a fixed han? Witnesses:

A. J. TrBBITs, J. H. SHUMWAY. 

